Eh, it just changes what your task is; social development is driven by the evolution of the means of production, which is largely influenced by technology; as a rule any progress is going to be opposed by any faction that would see its power decrease, and embraced by the group that stands to gain.

Weavers and kings aren’t going to embrace the automatic loom, but theres certainly some rich, lower nobility/merchants who want power over the peasants and upper nobility who will.

The Qing empire concluded steam engines were “clever, but useless” to actively harmful, and thats after seeing them in the rest of the world. Rome built a steam engine, and didn’t particularly care as they had slaves for productive work. The Ottoman Empire used steam to turn kebab, and that’s it. Spain (and every other empire) actively sabotaged industrial development in the colonies, since that represented competition, and production of higher-value goods means less cheap labor and resources. Today we can feed everyone, but don’t because its not profitable. We could educate 10x more scientists, but choose not to.

The point is the bigger blocker isn’t scientific knowledge, but social development.

Thanks, that page loads, but I’m not going to listen to an entire podcast.

I will never know, apparently they blocked vietnam.

Not a huge fan of CVTs, but admittedly my experience was limited to renting one for a few days. There were some uphill dirt roads I had to go on in the rain, it required me to do drift turns like an absolute maniac to keep the rpms up and maintain momentum.

Putting a racing clutch on a CVT seems counter-intuitive, isn’t it going to make that jerk when the clutch engages worse? Seems like a waste of the CVT’s smooth power delivery.

I did 5-9 hours a day on this bike the last 4 days, a light bike with a bag you can lean on and handlebars that aren’t so extreme it forces you into 1 position and the hours melt away.

Get podman running and Ill send you an image with my docker.

And so Docker was born.

Riding up mountains, over dirt, and constant acceleration and braking probably exacerbates things. It slipped while accelerating on a dirt shoulder to overtake a bus.

Ok, the money goes to a local college, using companies inability to find candidate to fund producing better candidates seems fitting.

Maybe calculated as 1.5 days labor for the posted salary or median compensation for that job, whichever is greater.

I have the chain cleaned/lubricated/tensioned every oil change, which is 800km, none of the mechanics mentioned the sprocket, guess I should have inspected myself.

If the oil change seems shockingly short, bikes in SEA don’t have replaceable oil filters, instead you just change the oil every 600-1000km, often with 20w50 or 15w40.

If an American who has never been to Ireland can declare themself Irish, then you, who has never been to America, can be declared American.

Substituting words to mold the way people using them think? Pretty OrwellianINGSOCian.

I constantly regret not buying a helmet cam while I was still in China. Maybe Ill pick one up next time.

Simply put the car in neutral and have the air pressure difference push the cars through.

Margaret Thatcher really wanted the Chunnel to be trucks only. It was impractical enough even they relented and accepted a train carrying cars. For why, look up pictures of the Chunnel Fire.

Using the owl chart, how are you feeling today?

Do you think a south American country would be allowed to implement the same policies as Denmark? We just kidnapped the last president who tried to do democratic socialism.

the stables

I didn’t see any stables, just horses chilling wherever.

If she decides that a plant looks tasty, strength alone won’t help you save her from herself

Yeah, I am kinda confused how the horses eating Styrofoam and hanging out just wherever are alive at all. Some were left to wander, sone were tied up in areas to eat whatever.

Maybe generations of the ones that would be saved by not letting them eat poison culling themselves created a breed that is either immune to poison and the kind of dumb shit that usually kills horses.

I think farm communities here have a different relationship with animals where like they clearly groom them and make some effort for them to not die, there’s not so much effort.